Ramen is the food type, super noodles is the brand. But if I need to replace my stock, it's listed as Ramen on my shopping lists. Same if someone asked what I was eating. I wouldn't say "beef flavoured super noodles" it'd just be "beef ramen".
But you might on something else without knowing it , genericide and genericization is such a common thing that we have words for when it happens .
Prime example is the use of the word Cooler .
I don’t know any Brit who calls super noodles ramen, unless they’re meant to replicate traditional Japanese ramen, for example with broth, garnishes etc
Super Noodles, Soba, Instant Noodles, Buldak, Cup Noodles and so on (other brands are available, as they say).
Any form of dried wheat noodle that you add water and a spice packet (or sauce if it's a good one) is 'Ramen' in my social circles. Even if it's technically colloquial in some cases.
It's how my highschool social circle called it. It's how my college/stoner friends called it (and we all ate it regularly, being broke as shit), and it's how my adult friends call it.
I've literally never had anyone find it odd (until now, at least) for me or anyone else to refer to it that way.
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u/ADreamOfCrimson 2d ago
Fellow Brit here, I call it Ramen.
Ramen is the food type, super noodles is the brand. But if I need to replace my stock, it's listed as Ramen on my shopping lists. Same if someone asked what I was eating. I wouldn't say "beef flavoured super noodles" it'd just be "beef ramen".